![]() ![]() ![]() The stage experience and consequent exposure to other musicians helped young Stuart hone his skills. By the time he reached 12 years of age, Stuart had so progressed on both the guitar and the mandolin that he was hired to tour with the Sullivan Family, a gospel group. Many children have indulged in such fantasies, but for Stuart, they became a reality. "My next-door neighbor got me a guitar when I was 4 or 5," he recounted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, "and I used to stand in front of the TV pretending I was playing along with Flatt and Scruggs." Porter Wagoner, Ernest Tubb, and the Wilburn Brothers ranked among Stuart's favorites, but one duo stood out in his mind. A good deal of his youth was spent in front of the television, absorbing every country music show he saw. Marty Stuart grew up in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the grandson of a fiddler. Country style." Stuart outlined his key to success: "The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots." And don't forget about the hair curious about his massive pompadour, Meyers wondered, "What does it take to achieve such a resplendent coiffure?" The answer, according to Stuart: "About four minutes, a 60-mile-an-hour wind, a $1 hairbrush, and an 87-cent can of Aqua Net." When I get on my bus and put on these clothes, I can almost feel something coming together." Entertainment Weekly writer Kate Meyers raved, "Marty Stuart reeks of style. In my case, they turn me into a hillbilly singer. The performer confessed in Country America that his fancy stage clothes are "uniforms." He contended, " transform you. The multitalented Stuart even coproduced an album for the Sullivans, a gospel work that earned critical acclaim.Īs a solo artist, Stuart has earned a measure of uniqueness with his passion for the flashiest stage attire he can borrow, buy, or collect from past country greats. Stuart has also done extensive studio work, backing up rockers Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Billy Joel, in addition to a multitude of country artists. ![]() At the age of 13, he was regularly performing with bluegrass pioneer Lester Flatt and he spent much of the late 1970s touring with Johnny Cash. Indeed he is name a country or bluegrass master and chances are Stuart has played in that artist's band. "What I have a passion to do is to take what I've learned in the past with the masters and bridge it into the future," he said. An accomplished instrumentalist, Stuart has forged a path through the country ranks with a series of infectious hits such as "Hillbilly Rock" and "Little Things." He explained in the Richmond Times-Dispatch that his work is based on a fusion of bluegrass, vintage rock, and Western swing. ![]() The satin-and-rhinestone-clad country rocker aims to build on country's roots and bring an authentic hillbilly look and sound back to Nashville. Addresses: Publicist- Summer Harman, Gurley & Co, 1101 17th Ave. “At night, after we finished our homework, rather than turn the radio on, Pop picked up the guitar and we’d all sit on the floor in a circle and he’d give us our (harmony) parts,” Mavis said in a Commercial Appeal interview.Born John Marty Stuart, September 30, 1958, in Philadelphia, MS married Cindy Cash (divorced). But he and Osceola were busy raising their own group, and Cleotha soon had a younger brother, Pervis, and three little sisters, Yvonne, Mavis and Cynthia. On weekends, he performed with local gospel groups like the Trumpet Jubilees. In 1935, they followed the well-worn path to Chicago, where Roebuck worked in the stockyards. He and his wife Osceola soon had a daughter, Cleotha, and the young family decided they wanted a better life than plantation sharecropping. He married at 18, giving up blues for gospel music. Learning from them as well as the Staples family phonograph, stocked with 78s by Blind Lemon Jefferson and other early country bluesmen, Roebuck soon became an accomplished guitarist.īut the rambling bluesman’s life was not for him. He picked up what he could from Patton and from a neighbor closer to his own age, Chester Burnett, the future Howlin' Wolf. Everybody’d go up to the big store when he’d play,” Staples told me a few years before he died. “He used to sit out there on the grocery store and play and entertain all of the people on a Saturday. His most vivid childhood musical memory was Delta blues great Charley Patton performing at Dockery’s general store. 28, 1914 in Sunflower County, Miss., raised one of 14 children on Will Dockery’s plantation. ![]()
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